Resources under Regimes : : Technology, Environment, and the State / / Paul R. Josephson.
Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--de...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Nature, Technology, and Worldview -- 1. The Modern State, Industry, and the Transformation of Nature -- 2. The Coercive Appeal to Order: Authoritarian Approaches to Resource Management -- 3. Development, Colonialism, and the Environment -- 4. Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Technology in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the transformation of nature into a humanized landscape. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674039247 9783110756067 9783110442205 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674039247 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Paul R. Josephson. |